Odense Hospital Complex
ODENSE
DENMARK
Odense Hospital: high building standards for a large-scale project
The Odense Hospital center is a structure built with high qualitative and technological standards, able to provide an efficient response to healthcare needs. The project focuses on people and their relations, and integration with the surrounding environment. CMB has carried out the design phase, developed with BIM methodology, optimizing all the qualitative standards, from energy consumption to the aesthetic quality of the design project, to the comfort of the interiors. The structure also meets the need for flexibility of the environment over time, allowing for the possibility of modifications to the layout.
THE FUTURE HOSPITAL IN 3D
Technology looks to the future: the Odense hospital in a hologram developed with the ATI Project
250.000
sq.m. surface area
80
intensive care beds
7
buildings connected to each other
Description of the project
The hospital extends over an area of 80 hectares in a natural green context in the area south-west of the city of Odense, near the University of Southern Denmark. CMB is project-leader in a joint venture with Itinera, a company specializing in large-scale projects in the Gavio group with a stake of 49%. The development of the project was implemented in BIM, which will ensure an increase in productivity and precision.The hospital complex is the most extensive in Denmark, to be completed in rapid time. It’s composed of six buildings arranged symmetrically with respect to the central body, which functions as a backbone and links the University to the main entrance. The building’s bodies are four or five stories high for a total surface area of over 250 thousand sq.m. For the choice of materials, particular attention has been given to sustainability, so as to create an eco-sustainable building with minimal energy consumption.
A health giant
The Odense Hospital Center is situated in an area the same size as the Danish city’s historic center. Here is a visual summary to understand its exceptional size.
Timeline
May 2025
The three bridges over the Letbane have been installed
A significant chapter has been written in the progress of the new Odense University Hospital: the three bridges spanning the Letbane light rail line have finally been installed. Fully assembled at ground level, the bridges were successfully launched into place with precision over the course of just three Sundays. This highly complex and operationally demanding operation was executed in record time. Yet this achievement goes far beyond engineering: the bridges ensure continuity of internal traffic — a critical function not only during the ongoing construction phase, but also once the hospital becomes fully operational.
May 2022
The hospital of the future
36,000 design drawings, 60 lifts and almost 9,000 doors for a capacity of approximately 10,000 rooms, more than 70 operating theatres, 70 ICU beds and 68 day-hospital beds. These are just some of the numbers of Denmark’s largest hospital complex.
Settembre 2021
Una festa per il completamento del tetto
Il 20 settembre al nuovo Ospedale Universitario di Odense si è festeggiato il tradizionale evento che celebra il completamento del tetto (Rejsegilde): all’evento hanno partecipato il Ministro della Salute Magnus Heunicke, il Presidente della Regione Stephanie Lose, Karsten Uno Petersen Consigliere alla Regione Syddanmark, i tecnici e il personale delle imprese CMB e Itinera che stanno portando avanti il lavoro con grande professionalità e soddisfazione. È stata una vera festa dove non è mancata la riproduzione in Lego del modellino del Nuovo Ospedale.
December 2020
Full-steam ahead: the hospital from above
Full-steam ahead: the hospital from above
A brief video made by the Odense Hospital Project Team. The shots from the drone in the building site area show the progress of the works which are continuing at full speed. There is a 3D representation of the sequence of the building phases.
August 2019
The official baptism
The first stone of the Hospital of Odense in Denmark was laid during a ceremony held on 28 August 2019. During the event, the President of the Regional Council Stephanie Lose and the Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke, aided by two young patients, buried a box containing the expectations of the patients and doctors who will be moving from the old hospital to the future hospital of Odense.
July 2019
Start of the work
In July 2019, on an area of 80 hectares in the south-east of the city of Odense, the first construction site machines began working on the new hospital. The hospital will blend in naturally with the landscape, including a connection with the tram system.
February 2018
Signing of the contract
Signed in February 2018, the contract for the university hospital in Odense, 170 kilometres from the capital Copenhagen, provides for the construction of the first two lots of the hospital complex, including the diagnosis and treatment areas and a number of in-patient departments, adding up to a total of about 260,000 square metres. The total budget is more than 380 million euros.
December 2017
CMB is awarded the hospital in Odense, Denmark
CMB (with a stake of 51%) in a joint venture con Itinera, a company specializing in large-scale works in the Gavio group (with a stake of 49%), has been awarded two lots of the new Hospital Complex in the city of Odense in Denmark. The work is for the overall value of around 390 million euros commissioned by the “Region of Southern Denmark”.
The works involve the completion of two lots of the new Odense hospital, specifically, Admissions, with a surface area of 60 thousand sq.m., and the Hospitalization and Outpatients wards of around 100 sq.m.
